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Example sentences for: mistake

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And yet, looking outside isn't necessarily a mistake.
The title of Isikoff and Simpson's proposed book, according to both Isikoff and Simpson, was Secrets and Lies , not All the President's Women . "The notion that Mike and I would be so lame as to use a cliché like All The President's Women is perhaps the most insulting part of Toobin's mistake," says Simpson.
He also thinks that it was a mistake for him to continue practicing law while serving as independent counsel; he speculates that, had he not allowed himself to practice privately from the start, he might not have been able to accept his appointment as independent counsel.
The girls made the mistake of exchanging notes during this transaction that were later discovered by school officials.
In the most famous passage in The Republic , Plato describes an underground cave where people are held prisoner in chains, unable to see anything but the shadows cast by figures passing outside; they mistake the shadows for reality.